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About us

Hi, we're Altmetric, a London-based start-up focused on making article level metrics easy. Our mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature.

We think that…

Authors should be able to see the attention that their articles are receiving in real-time.

Publishers, librarians and repository managers should be able to show authors and readers the conversations surrounding their content.

Editors should be able to quickly identify commentary where a response is required.

Researchers should be able to see which recent papers their peers think are interesting.

Our story

Altmetric was founded by Euan Adie in 2011 and grew out of the burgeoning altmetrics movement. Euan had previously worked on Postgenomic.com, an open source scientific blog aggregator founded in 2006.

Interested in taking the ideas from Postgenomic forward we entered an altmetrics app into Elsevier's Apps for Science competition and ended up winning. The prize money helped us to grow from an evenings & weekends project into a full-fledged product: the first standalone version of the Altmetric Explorer was released in February 2012.